As I started off reading Claiming an Education I read something that really stood out to me, the author stated "The first thing I want to say to you who are students, is that you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to claim one." Here when she's talking about claiming an education she really means you would really benefit yourself and your education, by really striving to get the best of the best, especially if you're a woman. This article talks primarily on the fact that men are still more dominant than woman in this day of age, which yes can still be true in some ways, but I now see woman of all different ethnicities and cultures being doctors and being representatives for states and so fourth. Depending on where I am and who I'm talking to I can still feel some stereotypes on how guys should be smarter and better in everything they do than woman, but on the other hand woman are getting more courage everyday to stick up for themselves and really speak out and let their knowledge be heard. This going into the next article of What Does it Mean to be Well-Educated I guess you can say everybody has a different opinion on what it means to be "well-educated;" you could go to the most prestigious school while your best friend is going to a state college and both be learning the same thing for a different amount of money. It all depends on how you, yourself, views education. This article also talks about a woman who is "well-educated" and ended up going to Harvard going on to get a doctoral agree in anthropology and a year later going on to medical school, now being a practicing physician. Her colleagues and patients all view her as an excellent one to be at that, but to others she comes off as unintelligent for not knowing her multiplication table off the back of her mind or being able to know simple grammar... There are a bunch of things that try to define on what it means to be "well-educated" like test scores or job skills or even the ability to memorize, but everybody has their own different style of education. Where Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences comes into place. Howard Gardner created his Multiple Intelligence Test back in the 1980's, this test comes with seven different types of "Intelligences" based on the person, more are added every year as well. Here you can take this test being yourself, no studying or anything, and find out what suites you best in the eyes of education. Gardner's idea challenges the medias idea of well reformed education and takes it to whole other levels so that a person can be themselves and find out what they should do and what they are interested in to continue to learn at an easier pace. I believe that you need to be interested in what you're learning to want to go further on with your education, there's not one "well-educated" persons out there, but there are a bunch of educated people around.
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